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Iran News Roundup December 3, 2010

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by Ali Alfoneh, Ahmad Majidyar and Michael Rubin. To subscribe to this daily newsletter, please visit this page, fill out the "New Subscribers" section, and check "Iran News Round Up" listed under "Projects."

"One of the benefits of the sedition of 2009 was that many masks were lifted and they showed their faces. This is one of the achievements of the regime. In our regime we have always had purity and filtering and one should not ignore them."

Rutgers Professor Houshang Amirahmadi: "Let's assume Amirahmadi is a middleman. Is it bad to be a middleman? Wall Street does nothing but act as middlemen. Fortunately I have not taken any money for myself in this work. I have the normal life with my salary as a university professor."

"Should anyone believe that last year's election was a struggle between two individuals, he is badly mistaken since the election provided imperialism with an opportunity to operationalize its plans..."

"It is the Guardian Jurist which resists many things and controls the regime. Therefore, the enemy tries to replace our [values] with commercialism and nihilism..."

[E] The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in a statement reiterated its stance on Iran's nuclear issue, underlining that the Tehran-West nuclear debates should be resolved through diplomatic means.

[E] China reiterated its strong opposition to the West's unilateral sanctions against Iran, and welcomed the upcoming talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany).